Robert Barr

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2


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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…

Short Mystery Story Collection 003


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Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 003: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …

Ghost Story Collection 006


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A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 013


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up y…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 020


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Revenge!


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A collection of 20 short stories of the crime, detective, and thriller variety, sharing a common theme of .... you guessed it, revenge, and …

In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories


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Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, bor…

The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont


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Short stories by a colleague of Jerome K. Jerome, and friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Barr probably wrote the first parody of Sherlock Hol…

The Sword Maker


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Times are hard in Frankfort. Defeat in war, weak leadership, trade blockades and a starving population lead to a restive and unhappy citizen…

A Chicago Princess


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After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the…

A Prince of Good Fellows


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Robert Barr (1849 - 1912) was a Scottish Journalist, editor, humorist and author. A Prince of Good Fellows was published in 1902, and is a s…

Short Science Fiction Collection 082


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Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 022


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LibriVox's Children's Short Works Collection 022: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame


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Robert Barr approaches romance in two short stories in his engaging and subtly humorous style.In One Day's Courtship, British artist John Tr…